Seems like "Everyone is having them dreams" (as Dylan sang)
I go with Heinlein and the "Thou art God" meme. It may sound nihilistic, but it is more along the lines of "Everything and everybody is just a dream that God is having". That hardly expresses what I really mean though since we're all 'skating on thin ice' here. I didn't understand most of what Caitlin was trying to communicate. I don't see any "love" in the universe (or multiuniverse or all of existence)
To make a long convoluted philosophical journey as short as possible. We are manifestations of God (dreams) trying to figure out if he wants to be "good" or "bad" and just exactly what defined "good" and "bad". It isn't so much that God "allows" us to suffer as he hasn't any way of preventing that suffering because he has no idea what is "good" and what is "bad".
Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and the laws of Robotics explore this question.
Anyway, I get to express my junkyard thesis just as much as everyone else does.
Seems like "Everyone is having them dreams" (as Dylan sang)
I go with Heinlein and the "Thou art God" meme. It may sound nihilistic, but it is more along the lines of "Everything and everybody is just a dream that God is having". That hardly expresses what I really mean though since we're all 'skating on thin ice' here. I didn't understand most of what Caitlin was trying to communicate. I don't see any "love" in the universe (or multiuniverse or all of existence)
To make a long convoluted philosophical journey as short as possible. We are manifestations of God (dreams) trying to figure out if he wants to be "good" or "bad" and just exactly what defined "good" and "bad". It isn't so much that God "allows" us to suffer as he hasn't any way of preventing that suffering because he has no idea what is "good" and what is "bad".
Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and the laws of Robotics explore this question.
Anyway, I get to express my junkyard thesis just as much as everyone else does.